how many televisions do you own?

@cher913 (25782)
Canada
March 10, 2008 7:24am CST
i read recently that many households in north american have as many televisions in their house as people. how many do you own? we have 3 (two are hand me downs) and we have 4 people in our house... how many hours do you spend watching and why? i either watch decorating shows, history shows or law and order...thats about it as far as tv goes...i spend about 14 hours on tv a week or so i would say (sometimes when i am watching tv, i am reading and the tv is on just for back ground noise.)
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@sedel1027 (17846)
• Cupertino, California
10 Mar 08
Wow thats a lot of TVs. We have 3 people and one Tv we all share. The Tv is one some of the day, but definitely not all. There are some days when the TV doesn't get turned on at all.
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@jenni7202 (1598)
• United States
10 Mar 08
Well, I own 1 television...but there are also 4 other tv's in the house, and there are 7 people that live here.
@brimia (6581)
• United States
10 Mar 08
we have 2 tvs but don't use either of them much. we usually watch tv on our pc. we're not big tv watchers either...when we're home we're often on the internet or watching movies or just busy with other stuff.
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@ravinskye (8237)
• United States
10 Mar 08
We have 2 tvs and there are 5 people in our house. One was given to us and the other I bought off a friend when she needed the money. I spend way more time on the internet then I do watching tv. A lot of the time the tvs are on here more just for the background noise. My kids will ask to watch a movie then spend the whole time it is on playing with their toys.
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@carolscash (9492)
• United States
10 Mar 08
We have 6 televisions - including the one in the garage. Each of the kids have one in their rooms and we have the new one in the living room. We have one in the kitchen that we use to watch the news with. Believe it or not, we don't watch tv much!!
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• United States
10 Mar 08
I have 4 people in my home and I also have 4 televisions (livingroom, my bedroom, and kids bedroom. I don't watch a whole lot of tv but I do have my favorite shows, Law & Order and Law & Order-SVU, to be amongst them. I can watch HGTV (decorating channel) all day long.
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@katisaurus (1038)
• Canada
10 Mar 08
One in each room. (3) One in the kitchen, one in the living room. So, 5. I watch shows like Friends, Gossip Girl, CSI, Law and Order, House (I love Hugh Laurie) and a lot of other stuff, it just depends on my mood. I usually watch about 6-7 hours a day, but most of the time it's on just because it's giving me something to listen to if I'm cleaning or sitting at the computer.
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• Philippines
11 Mar 08
i just transferred.. so i only got 1..
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@sunkissed (4330)
• United States
11 Mar 08
Well I have a two bedroom house and I have 4 T.V's. I live by myself, and I am home all the time, so one of my t.v's is on all of the time. Day and night.Even if I am not watching it it is watching me.
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@alamode (3071)
• United States
10 Mar 08
We have 4 for 2 of us... I watch craft shows in the morning, and a couple of hours in the evening, but Hun is a TV freak... they're all on all the time, even the one out in the shop!
@moneyandgc (3428)
• United States
10 Mar 08
Before the hurricane we had 4 or 5 televisions. Now we have our projector in the living room and a 42 inch tv that never even gets turned on in our bedroom. When we had cable I would watch VH1 in the mornings after the baby was born while she nursed. Other than that it never really got used then either. We watch movies quite a bit but we don't even bother to buy cable. My parents have a tv in almost every room and it is just the two of them that live there. They keep them for when we all visit.
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@asgtswife04 (2475)
• United States
11 Mar 08
Right now we currently own three televisions. I have one in the living room and one in each bedroom, although mine and my daughter's room we never turn on. I don't really know why we have so many as we try not to watch tv constantly. I try to do other stuff besides sitting my kids in front of the tv. LOL! God bless
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• United States
10 Mar 08
When I lived in the 2 story house we were living in there were 5 tvs. Now that we moved there is 4. I really do not really watch tv very much. Maybe a total of 5-6 hours each week. My husband does not watch much tv, but he does play his xbox and stuff like that on them. It does not suprise me if there are more tvs owned than there are people. I know that my parents have 5 tvs in their house and there is 4 people who live there.
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• China
11 Mar 08
i have only two televisions in my house,usually my parents use the bigger one, and i own the other.
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@MGjhaud (23240)
• Philippines
10 Mar 08
In my parent's house, we do have three four television but we're only using two of them. One in the living room which the most tv we're using and the other one is in my room. we only use it if someone's want to watch something but someone's going to kill if the channel is changed. hehehe..
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@raydene (9871)
• United States
10 Mar 08
Hi Doll We have 6 and 4 people live here We have one in each bedroom(there are 5 bedrooms) and one in the living room oxxoxoxoxoxo
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@mouse27 (1155)
• Canada
10 Mar 08
i have 2 tv's there little ones but they work and they don't really get turned on much so i don't think i'll get a bigger one there is no point
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@preve1984 (610)
10 Mar 08
i have 3 television...
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@gemini_rose (16264)
10 Mar 08
I live in England, we have 3 televisions in our house and there are 6 of us, I have the tele on all day, half the time its just background noise as I cannot sit with silence. Or its on for my daughter and she has her programmes on. There are 2 tvs upstairs I have 3 boys and so 2 of them share one and one has the other one. I watch tv more at night when there is something on, but just lately its been hard finding anything on to watch! All those channels that we have and we cannot find a single thing to watch, thats bad.
@anqi627 (10)
• Singapore
10 Mar 08
My house have 3 televisions,my room have one,the one is in living room and the other one is putting in the corner .And i spend 1 or 2 hours to watch nice program.But i will spend most hours to using computer.it is about 6 or 7 hours.
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